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22 January 2025
Film Review: The Brutalist – A worthy Oscars frontrunner
Brady Corbet's historical epic The Brutalist is the top contender to win Best Picture at this year's Oscars. But is this three-hour story of the American Dream as good as the hype suggests?
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26 November 2024
Film Review: Conclave — Who knew picking a Pope was this thrilling?
Harry Potter star Ralph Fiennes plays a conflicted cardinal battling the complex politics of the Vatican in this fascinating thriller from Oscar-winning director Edward Berger.
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1 June 2023
Voice actors don't receive enough credit for their work - by Sam Sweeney
An article exploring the mistreatment of voice acting in the entertainment world.
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1 April 2022
What Riz Ahmed's Oscar meant for British Asians
Riz Ahmed, British rapper, actor, and film writer, and absurdly talented director, Aneil Karia just won the Oscar for live-action short film with their co-created masterpiece The Long Goodbye.
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30 March 2022
Spielberg’s West Side Story (2021) versus the original West Side Story (1961)
Both are instant classics, but Spielberg tells the same story in an updated way – some critics even argue it surpasses the original. Here's how the two compare for better or worse.
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28 March 2022
Academy Awards 2022: The winners
The 94th Academy Awards have been and gone – read our summary to find out what happened.
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17 March 2022
On-screen stereotypes and the off-screen realities facing East Asian women
Soft-spoken or silenced, fierce fighters or hypersexualised punchlines – we take a look at the representation of East Asian women on camera and beyond it.
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10 March 2022
6 female film composers you should know about
6 important female composers who have written stunning music for the big screen.
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20 July 2021
Progress in diversity for annual Academy Awards members list
The latest inductees invited to be Academy members, including Laverne Cox and Issa Rae, are 46% female and 39% from under-represented racial communities.
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28 April 2021
2021 Oscars roundup
This year’s Oscars ceremony provided a balance of the predictable and the unexpected as historic and diverse wins were made.
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10 September 2020
The Oscars announce new inclusion guidelines
What are the new diversity guidelines for Best Picture nominees?
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19 January 2020
1917 review
Mendes’ all-in-one-shot WW1 film is stunning but ultimately hollow.
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26 October 2018
First Man Review
This will be a review on the 2018 Biographical Drama First Man that stars Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy.
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23 January 2018
Oscar nominations 2018: analysis
Let’s start from the top, as ever. The Shape of Water directed by Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth), which will release this weekend in the UK, earns a staggering, though not surprising, thirteen nominations including Best Picture.
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6 March 2017
La La Land review - dare to read an unpopular opinion
La La Land represents the toils of the Hollywood underdogs, a film primed for all the successes it gained and almost gained. Unfortunately, for everything that astonishes about this film, it still just didn't grip.
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15 February 2017
Why do we love award season?
Awards season is a time of predictable success, excessive venue budgets and political comradery. So with very little at stake for films that have already proved popular at the box office, why do we give out awards?
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24 January 2017
Oscars 2017: list of nominations
La La Land takes 14 nominations matching the record for most nominated film and musical ever, shared only by All About Eve and Titanic.